St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-05-21
A Desperate Attempt Made to Murder
0'Brien by the 0rangemen at
Kingston, ONT.
The Agitator Escapes From His Would
Be Assassins by the Greatest Of
Good Luck.
He Was Hit in the Neck With a Stone
and Nearly Drained With
Bludgeon.
The Police Fail to Afford ANY Protection
1.-The Town in the Hands
of a Mob.


ovation and an address from the stu
dents. Mr.. O'Brien replied in a pleas
ing and fiattering vein. The party then
drove to the station to catch the 1875 p.
m. train for Kingston, where
it was said the Orangemen
were arranging to give an
other warm" reception to the party.
In the same carwith O'Brien were Lady
Macdonald, wife of the Canadian pre-
mier; e. C. Baker, NJ. p. of British Co
lumbia, and Sir Leonard lilly, lieuten-
ant governor of New Brunswick. Fifty
miles out from here the Kingston
reception committee met the train
and returned here with the party.
AS the train slowed up at the station on
the Place D'Armes, it was seen that
large crowd was assembled there. As
Mr.. O'Brien stepped out of the car he
was in the much talkeasOf Kingston, the
Derry of Canada" as it. is called.
Kingston has population OF 1900,
of whom 5000 are Catholics. There
are only eight policemen and all of
them. in command of Chief Horsey, were
i'll waiting. To the surprise of Mr..
O'Brien and the rest of the party not a
dissenting voice was heard i'll the storm
of cheers which arose as Mr.. OBrien
entered the carriage.
THE PARTY
was driven to the Burnett house, where
crowd assembled and cheered the editor.
Battery A, the Dominion regular ar
tillery corps, and the Fourteenth prince
of Wales OWN rifles were held in the
armories for emergencies. besides
large number of special con-
stables to aid the ordinary
police force. Arriving at the skating
rink where the meeting was held, crowds,
all O'Brien sympathizers, were found
gathered around the building. Police
men armed with revolvers moved up
and down and forbade anybody to block
up the entrance to the hall. Nobody
attempted to do it. The street was
for all the world like Bay street, Tor
onto, where the attack on O'Brien oc-
Cured, and worse, because in addition
to cobble stones bricks were scattered
over the surface where new buildings
were being erected. The audience
numbered about 1900 and was very
similar to that of the Ulster
tenant farmers whose custom it is
to listen rather than applaud. O'BIien,
in opening his remarks, won at once the
Ulster ProtestantS who were listening,
and who form large section of the pop
ulation. Then he asserted that the Or
ange farmers in the North of Ireland
were as much oppressed as the
Catholic farmers, and Lord LanS
downe was championing the
cause of these despOtic landlords
who were causing this oppression. My
mission" he exclaimed, lis not to stir
up strife, but to blend the orange and
green" This sentiment at once was
over the descendants of the Ulster farm
ers. They cheered as heartily as any
body else. Again, when he said: eve
will so
HUMII.IATE LORD LANSDOwNE
in exposing his murderous policy i'll Ire
land as to make Orangemen as well as
Nationalist at last believe that there is
only one Lord: he who rules above the
cedars and stars" Among other things
O'Brien said: II believe few
misunderstanding which have arisen
between the Professionals and
Catholic Irishmen can very soon pass
away. Thank God they are rapidly
passing away and / could not help
thinking when l heard to-day that
Kingston was known as the Derry of
Canada that perhaps the name was a
name of good omen. lApplause.[ For
To-day Derry is Our Own,
Bows" Cheers. And the member
for Derry, Justin Mccarthy, is one of
the noblest Irish Nationalist living.
Renewed applause. am convinced the
time is coming fast when the Protestant
tenant farmers will admit with grateful
hearts the security and happiness they
enjoy are due to the struggles of the Ma
tional league in Ireland. [Applause.]
The unexpected and somewhat
OMNIBUS CALM
was now for the hrst time broken. AT
$50 o'clock, when Dennis Killbride
1t l,n E,r.-f ~.
heard outside the hall, where several
hundred men and boys had collected,
crying "God save the queen,'' and
groaning for O'Brien. Every
cheer which went up inside the hall
was answered by loud roar and angry
response from without. The crowd out
side was now swollen to immense pro-
portions. The meeting was brought to
an end by few remarks from Chair
man J, j. Behan, who told the audience
to go home peaceably. Then the peo-
pie started to go out, O'Brien being in
the rear. Thinking this to be too re-
markable, O'Brien's friends hnr-
sep h% on the To Sidewalks shs fEont wearing me
his usual silk hat. The moment
the Orangemen on the opposite side of
the street saw him they raised savage
yells and cried: "Here he u.s." and
rushed across the street. Cobble stones
and bricks began flying like hail.
Women screamed andgeneral confusion
reigned. "Ah, they're at it again" said
O'Brien in a tone of painful regret more
than anger. "Yes, yes" answered the
mob. ''There he isl drag him out
here on the street," kill him. ''choke
him."
''TEAR HIM ASUNDER,"
IL. L. ~.
bodyguard, which consisted of Ameri-
officers of the National league. A man
changed hats with O'Brien, as that
worn by the latter furnished
target for the mob, and as
the party doubled into Wellington street
another shower of bricks and broken
stones came spinning through the
crowd. O'Brien and his friends bent
their heads, but received the missiles on
the body. d. f. Kellogg, the New York
Sun correspondent, and John Wall, the
porter of the Associated Press, caught
up with O'Brien just on StoOp leading
to the house of John Newman, ProteS-
tant, on Midway street, between Will
lam and John streets. The doors were
opened, and a shower of missiles again
came across the street. The crowd
surged, Wall and Kellogg were
FLUNG TO THE GROUND
and O'Brien disappeared, evidently into
Newman'S house. The door of New
mans house is barred tightly. Wall and
Kellogg, with j. j. Behan, Thomas Sui
Ivan and j. J. Conwell, of the Chicago
News, rushed around through the vine
gar works, on Ontario street, for the
purpose of getting into the house by
the back entrance. The mob, however,
intercepted them, and they had to fly
for their lives. The mob next rushed to
there, shouting: TO HI with home